Cinema Admissions are continuing to show a healthy year-on-year growth, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association.The average weekly admissions figure for February’93 was 2.41m, an increase of 9.2% on February’92. February’s main attraction at the box office was Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which took £2.64m within its first 3 days of release… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Continue To Soar
Editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, has announced that he will not host the PPA magazine awards next month due to disputes by RBP journalists.
The Financial Times is claiming a 51.1% increase in sales for the issue containing a 22-page budget special (Wednesday March 17). Total sales for the day were 269,323 – with additional sales standing at 91,081.
Ulster Television profits soared for the year to December 1992, rising dramatically from £1.95m to £4.18m with earnings per share almost doubling at 24.2p. Dividends increased from 7.5p to 10p.
The society for the promotion of new music is set to sponsor Classic FM’s Sunday programme, Contemporary Classics, broadcast every Sunday from 10.00pm to 11.00pm.The radio station, which launched in September, has also recently won the ITV Award for New Product of the Year against Channel Four’s Big Breakfast and Ford Options.
..The Manchester Evening News, the Yorkshire Post and the Slough Observer are amongst those shortlisted for the regional newspaper of the year, due to be announced on April 19….Belfast newspaper, Sunday Life is claiming that it picked up 12,000 sales from recently closed Sunday News by producing an 80-page issue, breaking the £30,000 ad revenue… Continue reading Regional Snippets..
New Carlton Publishing, which produced City Limits before it closed last month, has gone into administrative receivership despite promises to staff that it would soon launch a new women’s glossy title.
The female humour magazine Bitch, which launched in August, has been forced to close having failed to meet initial sales forecasts.Bitch had an ambitious first print-run of 500,000 with claims that the first issue sold over 340,000 copies. However, due to a rapid decline in circulation the Brighton-based magazine will release the March issue as… Continue reading Bitch Faces Closure
Zenith has issued the April edition of its quarterly “UK Television Forecasts to 2003”.Among the key points made in the report are: The UK economy is expected to grow in real terms by almost 1% this year; total expenditure by 1.4% and TV advertising revenues by 2.9% Channel 4 is expected to take £306m in… Continue reading Zenith UK TV Forecast To 2003
The Financial Times is claiming a 51.1% increase in sales for the issue containing a 22-page budget special (Wednesday March 17). Total sales for the day were 269,323 – with additional sales standing at 91,081.
